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Show CHINA LOSING GROUND, EuropoR?! NntioiiN Arc. (:niMly AliAorbhiK Ilur Tcrrlloiy. Vast and populous ns Ciiina is, the experience of the present century shows thai she i weak for afrji'ivsMve purposes. She has not the hold on territory ter-ritory adjaeeiit to her borders which she could claim a hundred years ao. Kiiropean nations are prcisinr nn her. both on the south and on the north. She has been forced to cede a portion of her tcrritorv to Km: land, and sin-has sin-has been compelled to avail herlf of Ihehelpof KiiLni-h-nen. lioth for eivil adminirlratioii and for military command. com-mand. All these thinis. says the VA inbnrh llevicw. show that an expansion of Die " 'h in esc race docs not necessarily in-vnlvi' in-vnlvi' ane!iMeioii of t'li;ie--r ilotnin-i-m. (tn l!ie c..:ii!-;iry. they lend to pn ive that it is t lie . trder in I n id need by to Die mull iplieat ion of l!n"-c industri-on-, people: iind ! here is. t herefore. at !ea1 as miii'h I'roiiii'l for sa'. iii'f that, ihoni-h Korm-o. Siimalra and .New (.uinea and !:. Mi.li.N of Die i;a-1ern Arc h i n-i,tLr' m:i v ulliinatelv pe- pled by yelh.u rae.-. t hey will be governed b' th- w lo!.- rae,-. as f, ,r beh.-viti;: tli.it n iu-w Chinese empire i'- hi proee-s of format i'-n: a hincsc Iteiia ma . in oi ii. r uorls. be developed devel-oped in these rfeat and fertile i-lands |